Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] [prep] the present [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Their dossiers should be kept complete , as complete as those of my friends to whom copies of the present missive have been sent . |
| 2 | I think the government should slow down on all its activities at the present time and concentrate on getting the economy right , and everything else put on the back burner . |
| 3 | Thus , a study ( Korpi , 1978 , p. 332 ) of the unions and politics in Sweden concluded that , with the strengthening of their collective power base the levels of aspiration of wage-earners are likely to increase ( in a political sense ) , ‘ extending to issues of control over work and production ’ ; while another study ( Gallie , 1978 , p. 299 ) brought out important differences between British and French workers in their attitudes to the present system of industrial production , with the latter taking a much more political view : |
| 4 | Mr Patrick McIntyre , a South London publican and former New Scotland Yard detective who wrote a regular crime column for the South London Chronicle , was another who cast doubt on the Hooligan panic , accusing newspapers of being in their ‘ silly season ’ and of taking the matter up merely ‘ as a suitable and sensational means of filling their columns at the present moment ’ . |
| 5 | This exciting new play traces the history of the Dock Ward area of Belfast , from its origins to the present day , in an evening of song , dance , music and drama . |
| 6 | Among their justifications for the present move , Sotheby 's have stated that the average price of a lot sold at Sotheby 's is £1,000 which will result in an extra £50 on the bill ; that this is the first rise in the buyer 's premium since 1975 ; and that the alternative would have been to close down a number of the company 's European offices . |
| 7 | It was an essential element of the cause of action in such circumstances that the governmental plaintiff establish that the public interest would suffer detriment in the absence of a remedy ; ( 9 ) in failing to have proper regard to the legislative purpose of section 222(1) of the Local Government Act 1972 by which Parliament could not have intended to authorise a local authority to bring libel proceedings , a fortiori where it had suffered no actual financial loss ; ( 10 ) having regard to the scale of costs likely to be incurred it could never be in the interests of the inhabitants of the area for the local authority to mount an action for libel in such circumstances , and certainly was not in their interests in the present case where no injury was alleged to the superannuation fund . |
| 8 | It has been officially reckoned by educationalists that school-leavers of yesteryear ( even at 14 ) were far more advanced in the three R's and the sciences than their counterparts of the present day who leave at 16 . |
| 9 | Our conversation moved cautiously round the subject of corruption in public life , and I quoted Burke , whose Thoughts on the Present Discontents I had been studying , to the effect that wisdom consisted in part in deciding how much evil to tolerate . |
| 10 | When Smart Lethieullier of Aldersbrook had completed his mortuary chapel adjoining St Mary 's , Little Ilford , Essex , in c.1740 he transferred the remains of his parents into the present vault from elsewhere in the church . |
| 11 | ( 34 ) shows that the word now can , astonishingly enough , sometimes carry a negative implication : in this sentence it implies " not before " , the import here being " She had n't dared finger his pots before the present moment " . |
| 12 | A review of the procedure demands an assessment of whether these objectives are achieved , and , if they are not , a consideration of what reforms of the present procedure are necessary or whether a more radical approach is required . |
| 13 | These are the very same young people whom advocates of the present law would argue receive its ‘ protection ’ . |
| 14 | Neither approach by itself is adequate to take account of the complexities involved in meeting the needs of our children and our schools at the present time . |
| 15 | It is of no assistance , however , to your Lordships in the present appeal to debate the finer points of Reg. v. Lawrence with a view to deciding whether the decision in this House ( although not that of the Court of Appeal ) can be justified on the special facts . |